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Child Care and Early Learning: Extreme Child Care Access Deserts & Uptake Estimates Metadata

Metadata Updated: September 27, 2025

Extreme Child Care Access Deserts (ECCADs) are Zip Code Tabulated Areas (ZCTAs) that have too few licensed early learning providers for the estimated population of children. ECCADs shows a lack of providers by eligibility category, alongside the estimated rate of children receiving Early Care and Education (ECE) services, as compared to the total population of eligible children (referred to as Uptake Estimates) by ZCTA. The Persistence map helps show which ZCTAs are frequently categorized as an ECCAD by month. DCYF’s Office of Innovation, Alignment, and Accountability (OIAA) makes use of the definition and methodology for Extreme Child Care Access Deserts developed in Massachusetts. For reference on the methodology, see Hardy et al. 2018 Research Report: Subsidized Child Care in Massachusetts: Exploring geography, access, and equity. This data set comes from the Child Care and Early Learning: Extreme Child Care Access Deserts & Uptake Estimates dashboard (https://dcyf.wa.gov/practice/oiaa/reports/early-learning-dashboards/eccad)

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Metadata Created Date April 5, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 27, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from WA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 5, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 27, 2025
Publisher data.wa.gov
Maintainer
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Data First Published 2025-04-02
Data Last Modified 2025-09-26
Category education
Public Access Level public
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Harvest Source Title WA JSON
Homepage URL https://data.wa.gov/d/8bcf-vcza
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 186eef6c04b7b0ed8d347ef2a71ac95cafe7fce7bb3f527d6a09b8b14b53d289
Source Schema Version 1.1

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